19-year-old girl commits suicide over 190 JAMB score
A 19-year-old girl, Opesusi Faith Timilehin, has allegedly committed suicide after ingesting ‘Push Out’ rodent poison for scoring 190 in the just-released Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result.
Timilehin, from Abeokuta, lived at Odogunyan in Ikorodu, Lagos State, with her elder sibling.
The Guardian Newspaper learnt that neighbours and residents mourned Timilehin, whom they described as “gentle and humble.”
A family source said the deceased, who applied for Microbiology, also sat for the same examination last year.
“She said her last year’s result was better than this year’s,” one of her close allies (name withheld) told journalists on the phone.
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According to reports, neighbours started noticing unusual behaviour in Timilehin at her elder sister’s office, after she demanded palm oil to douse the pains she was experiencing after taking the poison at home.
Her sister, who initially didn’t know the cause, ignored her, only to later raise an alarm that attracted sympathisers to the scene.
An eyewitness said Timilehin later confessed on the way to the hospital to have taken poison at home before coming to her sister’s office.
She was said to have scored more than her current 190 in the previous JAMB result in 2024.
Ironically, JAMB gave her provisional admission just about 30 minutes after she was confirmed dead at Kolak Hospital in Odogunyan.
“The shocking revelation is that she was sent an admission message via her Gmail yesterday, immediately after she was confirmed dead at Kolak Hospital, Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos,” the source stated.
Meanwhile, Timilehin’s parents, on hearing the sad news, arrived in Ikorodu, allegedly to pick her remains back to Abeokuta for burial.
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